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Residential construction was tricky in December 2015 as both housing starts and building permits posted disappointing numbers, but builder confidence remains elevated and year-end totals hit 2007 levels.

Concern over what will happen now that the Fed has raised the interest rate for the first time in a decade‒‒and with further increases on the way‒‒is surprisingly minimal. Read on to see which group of Americans are not particularity worried about future rate hikes.

While the approaching date of December 25, 2015, meant it was beginning to look a lot like Christmas for many, for Citigroup it was beginning to look like the pre-crisis year of 2006.

More U.S. families are opting to live together in one household for a number of reasons, but are these multi-generational homes hindering new household formation?

For many years, buying a home has been considered to be a no-brainer and an obvious choice when compared to renting a home, but that perception has been altered as the housing market continues to change.

With multi-billion dollar mortgage-backed securities settlements mostly in the rear view mirror, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley both posted solid results in their respective Q4 and full year 2015 earnings statements released on Tuesday

First-time homebuyers have been touch-and-go in the housing market since the crisis, but that here today, gone tomorrow trend could be changing for the better.

Home builder confidence in January 2016 changed very little from December's level, but this only means that economists were spot on with their predictions for the new year.

Unaffordable housing markets across the U.S. may pose a challenge for investors searching for properties. See which hot markets made the pricey list and may begin to cool this year.

The National Association of Realtors’ Existing-Home Sales report for December 2015 comes out on Friday, January 22.  The industry will be waiting to see if the numbers will ...